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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. +

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

They use geo/ip to work out where I am. Shows me again if the product is in stock. Underneath are two, mostly likely stock, photos of Farmers "Chuck" and "Frank" bearing copy that is almost certainly lawyer-approved – it is bereft of any passion. And it is as if html has not been invented.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

Keep input fields as close to their unaltered HTML rendering as possible. For example, pre-select the user’s country based on their IP address. It should be possible to switch the formatting based on location, either by prompting for location or by IP lookup. Smashing Book 1 in HTML. Smashing Book 1 Extras in HTML.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

If they use Haml, are they ignorant of HTML? But that might be too much for you to understand.Net (CRL) can run everything from Python, PHP, C#, Ruby and even languages out of your “standard” code-to-render-random-html like F# and Scala down to even C++ integrated in a way that no other platform supports. Matt Sherman.

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Startup Resources

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Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donĂ¢?? Phonegap Ă‚ /Ă‚ Appcelerator (Titanium) Ă‚ : Write mobile apps with HTML/CSS/Javascript. IP Location Tools. High Quality, and open sourced!